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NBC, the American TV network, has asked
Heidi the cross-eyed opossum to co-host the biggest Hollywood showbiz event in the world.

Hollywood Heidi: The opossum is set for the Oscars

Dedicated Metro.co.uk readers and any of the 300,000 fans of her Facebook page will recognise Heidi and her distinctive, misaligned eyeballs, after we documented her arrival to Germany’s Leipzig Zoo last December.

The picture-perfect, cute marsupial has been asked to join NBC’s Academy Awards presenters in February for the Oscars , and zoo-keepers are in talks about making this happen without exposing her to too much distress.